transcendental logic

is that about which heidegger remarked : 'Whoever understands this principle understands kant's critique of pure reason'.

Heidegger remarked: 'Whoever understands this principle understands Kant's Critique of Pure Reason' (1935, p. 183). The immediate generation of post-Kantian philosophers, such as Reinhold and Fichte, tended to emphasize the rational, deductive origin of the principles over the empirical... neo-Kantians later in the nineteenth century emphasized their empirical sources in the practice of the natural and human sciences. (caygill 'kant' 323)

is concerned with the forms of conception just as transcendental esthetic is concerned with perception, and just as perceptions arranged sensations around objects in space and time, so conception arranges perceptions (objects and events) about the ideas of cause, unity, reciprocal relation, necessity, contingency, etc.

Just as perceptions arranged sensations around objects in space and time, so conception arranges perceptions (objects and events) about the ideas of cause, unity, reciprocal relation, necessity, contingency, etc.; these and other "categories" are the structure into which perceptions are received, and by which they are classified and moulded into the ordered concepts of thought. These are the very essence and character of the mind; mind is the coordination of experience.

is concerned with elements in our thought which are not so much given to the mind by perception as given to perception by the mind.

So we pass from the wide field of sensation and perception to the dark and narrow chamber of thought; from "transcendental esthetic" to "transcendental logic." And first to the naming and analysis of those elements in our thought which are not so much given to the mind by perception as given to perception by the mind; those levers which raise the "perceptual" knowledge of objects into the "conceptual" knowledge of relationships, sequences, and laws; those tools of the mind which refine experience into science.

is concerned with those tools of the mind (knowledge of relationships, sequences, laws) which refine experience into science.

is the coordination of the perceptions (which were first ordered by space and time) by applying to them the forms of conception, or the "categories" of thought.

There are two grades or stages in this process of working up the raw material of sensation into the finished product of thought. The first stage is the coordination of sensations by applying to them the forms of perception—space and time; the second stage is the coordination of the perceptions so developed, by applying to them the forms of conception—the "categories" of thought. Kant, using the word esthetic in its original and etymological sense, as connoting sensation or feeling, calls the study of the first of these stages "Transcendental Esthetic"; and using the word logic as meaning the science of the forms of thought, he calls the study of the second stage "Transcendental Logic." These are terrible words, which will take meaning as the argument proceeds; once over this hill, the road to Kant will be comparatively clear.

is concerned with the structure into which perceptions are received, and by which they are classified and moulded into the ordered concepts of thought.

these and other "categories" are the structure into which perceptions are received, and by which they are classified and moulded into the ordered concepts of thought. These are the very essence and character of the mind; mind is the coordination of experience.

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transcendental logic